You can even link Contact fields to Company fields for automatic update of contact related data.Ħ. Track employee benefits, qualified plans and other employer related data inside of the Company record. New company records provides combined views of all the history, activity, notes, opportunities, and documents for all the contacts of a company, project, division segment or territory. Company Records - You can now manage a company’s record and not just individual contacts.
Also, rescheduling any activity in a series will cause ACT! to prompt the user to reschedule either ‘all activities in the series’ or ‘just the single one being rescheduled’.ĥ. The enhancement also allows each activity to be scheduled before or after a ‘target’ date negating the need for scheduling multiple activity series. ACT! allows each activity in the series to be pre-assigned to any user in the database. Enhanced Activity Series – Activity Series in ACT! 6 automatically assigned ALL activities to the scheduling user based on a start date or due date. As a result, there is a richness of add-on products, tools, techniques and enhancements far beyond anything possible on the old ACT! platform.ĪCT!’s commitment to Microsoft SQL means that the database is far less likely to get corrupted and works much more efficiently for larger amounts of data.Ĥ. NET technology to open up features and integration with other programs. Simply set the time and frequency and your database backups are done automatically in the off hours when no one is in the database.ĪCT! now uses Microsoft’s SQL database engine and Microsoft.
You no longer have to remember to backup your database manually. Scheduled Automatic Backup and database maintenance feature is now included in all versions of ACT! 2009/2010. In ACT! Premium, you can also set field level access rights (open, read-only or hidden) to individual users or teams.ģ. Securing the database with ACT! Premium now extends the ability to restrict access of selected contact, company and group records to specific users or “teams” of users.
The new ACT! includes a secure Microsoft SQL database, password rules, and 2 additional user rights for more added security including Administrator, Manager, Standard, Restricted and Browse only. Security – The ACT! 6.0 password is easily hacked and anyone with rights to your ACT! 6.0 database files can take a copy of your database without your knowledge. Additionally, you can now create an Outlook Rule to automatically attach incoming emails to the desired ACT contact.Ģ. From within Outlook, you can create ACT! activities from emails and even add a contact from an email. Attached email can be set as private or public to secure what is shared with fellow database users. Stay in Outlook and easily attach sent and received emails to contacts in your Act4Advisors database. Use Microsoft Outlook instead of ACT!’s email client. ACT! is loaded with great new features such as simplified lookups and queries, improved workflow processes, dashboards, secondary contacts, company records, dynamic groups, improved security, highly improved email integration with Outlook, and much more.ġ0 Critical things you can't do with ACT! 6.0 but you can with ACT! 2009/2010, ACT! 2011, or ACT! Premium Solutions.ġ.
ACT! 6.0 is no longer sold or supported by Sage Software.ĪCT! combined with Act4Advisors 3.0 is compatible with Microsoft Vista and Windows7, 64 bit computers, and with Office 2007.ACT! 6.0 is not compatible with Microsoft Office 20.ACT! 6.0 has limited compatibility with Microsoft Vista / Windows7 and is not supported.If you plan on buying a new computer, here are some things you should know: